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In addition to Dakota Access, Trump also urged the expediting of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline project previously blocked by Obama. This is at least the third time Boasberg, appointed in 2011 by former President Barack Obama, has denied a bid to block pipeline project progress. It is undisputed that treaty rights promise the Standing Rock Sioux sufficient safe drinking water, Hasselman said. The case is Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 16-cv-1534, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington). Energy Transfer Partners LP will soon send oil through its controversial Dakota Access pipeline, having defeated a Native American tribe’s effort to prevent that on religious grounds.

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Final Cleanup Begins at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp

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Authorities this week cleared the last holdouts from the camp near the Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles the North Dakota and South Dakota border. A spokesman for North Dakota Gov. A Florida-based company has been hired to provide trash removal and environmental cleanup in the main Oceti Sakowin camp on the north side of the Cannonball River and the smaller Rosebud camp on the south side. He said the North Dakota Highway Patrol can assist on public roadways, but using the National Guard requires an official request from either Sioux County or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The concrete barricades that have been used to blockade and route traffic near the Oceti Sakowin camp were also being moved Friday, but Highway 1806 remains closed north and south of the camp.